Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-07

a conclusion reached by careful investiga-
ton and sober judgment. Whether for
or against the amendment let Us be toler-
ant and dispassionate. Only the fenatic
and the bigot Will endeavor TO foment
strife Gainesville Register.
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The Dallas News seems inclined to
bulldoze all prominent Democrats into
the anti-prohioition ranks. Because Mr..
Herndon of Tyler espouses prohibition
the News says: "It was Democratic
communication that retired Mr.. Herndon
from public position. Can it be that he
nursed spite against the party ever
since Certainly if he has been hsrbor-
ing all this time desire to be avenged,
he could not have found better oppor-
tunity Tor carrying it into effect" Now,
as the Democratic party authorita-
lively in convention, declared prohi-
bition nOn-partisaG question and that
Democrats could take either side without
impairing their party standing, it is hard
10 see wherein ne avenges himself on the
party by taking the prohibition side. The
Democratic party is well aware that the
News has always been it's covert enemy
and easily interprets all such ute ances
as the above. The party will not go to
wreck on the rock the News is providing
for it. There are good arguments for
ants to use without appealing to party
prejudice. The party cannot be dragged
into the fight Cleburne Chronicle.
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The San Antonio Express has broken
out with fresh Democratic zeal over the
prohibition question, and while it dis
plays its usual courtesy and moderation
it is none the less pointed and positive in
reading the "dry'' brethren out OF the
party. In its opinion this must be done
not only in the present campaign, but it
insists that hereafter all men who come
before Democratic conventions, or before
the people with Democratic nomina-
tiOns, must be required to make salts
factory exhibit of show and where
they stood when Democratic principles
were at stake" This means that all pro-
hibitionists must be made to stand aside
IN the future as men who have abandoned
their Democratic faith and gone OFF after
strange gods. Fortunately the Express
speaks only for itself and few other
over Jealous Democrats who would much
prefer to crack the party whip than to
fight the whisky question on the bare
issue. The Democratic party of Texas
has spoken too plainly at Galveston for
any Democrat to hesitate to take what
ever position he chooses on the prohiDi-
ton amendment, in fear of party disci-
pine. And the Democratic prohibitionists
of Texas are certainly not weak enough in
numbers to be at all apprehensive of any
bulldozing process. They constitute q
majority of their party in the state, as To-
cal option elections in the past have
shown, and as the August election will
show; and while they do not propose to
read anybody out for difference Of opin-
ion in this campaign, they will not be
read out by any authority less than the
solemn declaration of the party itself in
convention assembled. And it is safe to
say that this will never be done In the
state of Texas, within the present gener-
alton OF voters.-[ Waco Day.
Thoman says "rhe effects of intoxi-
cans are unwarrantably exaggerated
Considered from an economic standpoint,
and in their relation to the welfare of So
Ciety, they are counterbalanced more
than hundredfOld by the fiscal advan-
tages which the community derives from
the use OF IntOXicantS. If, therefore, pc
cuniary considerations only were TO de-
eide, the conclusion would be inevitable
that doing away with the use of inebria-
ting liquOrs-if such thing were posi-
ble-might perhaps save an infinitessimal
fraction Of the population from the insane
asylum, the poor-house or the jail, but
that it would be a great material loss to
the community Corsicana Courier.